Production planning software for factories
Lines, shifts, machines that break down and orders that cannot wait. Ellibo Manufacturing plans each step on your work centres, runs the floor on tablets, and keeps quality, maintenance and cost in the same place as your stock and books.
Start on the Free plan - shop floor operators are free. Works on any device.
The daily fires in a factory
More machines and more shifts mean more ways for a plan to fall over by ten in the morning.
The plan is a spreadsheet nobody trusts
The production plan is rebuilt every morning in a spreadsheet, and a single breakdown makes it wrong by noon.
The planning board shows every step on every work centre, inside its shifts. Drag a bar to another time or machine, and work waiting on it follows.
Downtime has no reason
A line stops for an hour and the only record is a shrug at the shift handover.
Operators block work with a stop reason on the shop floor. OEE on Business is worked out from the time recorded and those reasons, by work centre.
Quality is checked on paper
Inspection sheets go in a drawer, and when a customer complains you cannot tell which batch it was.
Control points make checks by themselves while making or when goods come in. Failed checks raise alerts, and a batch or serial number can be followed from material to customer.
Machines fail on the busiest day
Maintenance happens when something breaks, and nobody knows how often the same press has failed.
Equipment with planned maintenance every so many days makes requests by itself, and holds the work centre so planning goes around it. Each machine shows its failures and days between.
How a factory week runs
- The master schedule looks ahead
Forecast and open sales show what to make and buy in the coming weeks or months.
- Planners set the week
Orders are planned onto work centres inside your shifts, around time off and maintenance.
- Each shift works from tablets
Operators sign in with a PIN, start and finish steps, record quantity, scrap and checks.
- Managers see the truth
OEE, delays, work centre load and real cost, report by report, with CSV downloads.
Built for running production lines
Planning board
Work centres as rows and order steps as bars, by 3 days, week, 2 weeks or month.
Pick, make, store
Two- or three-step production with real transfers to and from the production warehouse.
OEE and stop reasons
Downtime counted as material and setup, equipment failure, performance or quality.
Quality control
Pass or fail, measures, pictures and worksheets, with control charts on Business.
Maintenance
Breakdown and planned requests on a board, with reliability figures for each machine.
Batches and serial numbers
Numbers carried through every order, and followed from raw material to finished goods.
Day one in the factory
- Import your items, work centres and BoMs from spreadsheets.
- Set your shifts under working hours, including any night shift.
- Choose one, two or three steps for how material moves to the line.
- Add stop reasons and your operators with PINs.
- Create control points for your key inspections.
- Add your machines as equipment with their planned maintenance.
Add more Ellibo apps when you need them
One account, the same customers, items and team in every app.
InventorySeveral warehouses, transfers and reorder points for raw material. AccountingFinished goods at real cost and month-end work-in-progress entries. HRShifts, attendance and payroll for the people on your lines. AnalyticsProduction and cost figures on a live dashboard.Manufacturing for factories: FAQ
Does it connect to our machines or PLCs?
No. OEE is worked out from the time operators record and the reasons they choose when work stops. Measures in quality checks are typed in by hand.
Can we plan by machine and shift?
Yes, on Professional and above. Each work centre has its working hours and speed. The planning board places steps inside those hours, around time off and work already planned, and backup work centres can take over.
How does it handle night shifts?
Add a shift for the night. A shift past midnight is two lines, one on each day, and work is planned inside those hours.
Can we follow a batch to the customer?
Yes, from Standard. Follow a batch or serial number shows what it was made from and where it went.
How does cost reach the books?
Finished goods enter stock at material plus labour plus overhead, so stock value and profit carry it. On Professional, a month-end entry puts labour and overhead in unfinished orders on your balance sheet.
How is it priced?
Per office user: admins, planners and quality and maintenance staff. Operators and viewers are free, however many shifts you run.
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